A Week in Tokyo Part 6 – Ueno & Akihabara
After a day of prolonged meetings in Tokyo I found myself in the northeastern district of Taitō (台東) and decided to spend the evening looking around…
Read articleGetting Lost in Haruki Murakami’s ‘Town of Cats’
Book reviews are not usually my thing, but having recently finished Haruki Murakami’s epic three-volume novel, 1Q84, events conspired which were a little too coincidental to pass over. For…
Read articleReturn to Wuhan
As part of my job I need to visit Guangzhou in south China every so often (2 hours from Hong Kong by train) and on my…
Read articleElectric Akihabara & Tokyo Transport
Tokyo’s transportation network is as staggeringly efficient as it is complex. I don’t think I ever had to wait more than a minute or two for a train…
Read articleRiding Shanghai Maglev
I was in Shanghai last weekend for the tail end of a business trip to Wuxi and finally got a chance to ride the experimental high-speed…
Read articlePeople Mountain, People Sea
There’s an old saying in China “People Mountain, People Sea” (人山人海 – ren shan ren hai) and if you’ve been in China for any period of…
Read articleLondon -> Tokyo by Train
Sometimes you come across an idea which is so mad that it might just have a chance of success. This was the case when I first…
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